The Stars My Blanket (Paperback, New)

After the restrictions of an Edwardian girlhood, Beryl Smeeton cherished the freedom to travel alone, and became a globetrotter on an epic scale.

Friendly and genuinely interested in the people of the countries she visited, she preferred to travel on crowded buses, in third class train compartments and on foot. Just before the Second World War, she completed two remarkable journeys: in South America, a thousand mile trek on horseback in the eastern foothills of the Andes, and in the Far East, a hike for several hundred miles through the hilly jungles of Burma and Siam (now Thailand). With her infectious enthusiasm and great capacity for fun, she enjoyed even the roughest of experiences -- being blown right off her horse in Argentina, and fording dangerously flooded rivers in Burma.